Five Links On Friday: The Great British Bake Off Final

The cakes are gone for another year. The Great British Bake Off took the nation by storm once again, trouncing its opposition in the ratings war.

The final episode, shown on Wednesday this week, drew 14.5m viewers at its peak – an impressive proportion of the population in this multi-channel age. It was also pretty much impossible to avoid on social media as well, with timelines up and down the country filling up with tweets and posts about Tamal’s buns, Ian’s lack of sugar, and Nadiya’s speechless victory. (Oh, spoiler warning.)

While there were lots of social media posts from supermarkets and other food cookery brands (and, er, Star Wars, for some reason), I was keen to find out which members of the education sector were capitalising on the popularity of Bake Off.

I found that Royal Holloway in Surrey quoted Nadiya’s words as part of their campaign featuring inspirational women: